Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.
They might have set-up costs, both in time and money, but once they are rolling they can just tick over in the background.
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It was maybe because of Berne - where clocks continue to tick over centuries - that the Theory of Relativity, a concept that time is not constant, could have been born.
You might ask, 'Why can't the water company just go into tick-over mode now and let us have bills that don't go up any more?
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He said there had been complaints that wax had been put over the tick-box for the party, which could later be rubbed off to cancel the vote.
The innovations that succeed are those that have the time and space to test and learn and the money left over to then iterate and tick and tack between different approaches until they nail the job of the user.
The truth of our over-informed lives is we have to tick to-dos off our list as we progress through the day.
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Speaking for the Scottish Conservatives, Annabel Goldie noted concern over section 108 which she referred to as 'tick boxing'.
The 2001 Census was mired in wrangling over nationality after it emerged the questionnaire would include box for people to tick to describe themselves as Scottish or Irish but not Welsh.
The tick box in Scotland was added at the request of the Scottish parliament, which has authority over the census in Scotland.
The GfK German Consumer Climate Index improved one tick to 4.1 which at that point pushed the euro to a new weekly high just over 1.2740.
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