I just can't work out what makes Tom tick.

Niliacus Lacus, try to get the practice, slick a tick a bacus.

I like to take things apart to see what makes them tick.

For example, white tailed deer living in northwestern Costa Rica host six species of tick.

Each question included a checklist relating to the procedure, and respondents were requested to tick applicable responses.3

His weapon? Art. Global Voices Online sat down with this young Lebanese graffiti artist to see what makes him tick.

Sony Playstation Network done, the government of Turkey tick, Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency a breeze, the CIA falling off a log.

And then by analyzing the various quirks and complexities of language, I think we can get a window onto what makes us tick.

So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes TED sters tick.

They went upstairs into the little room, where all looked just as it used to do. The old clock was going tick, tick, and the hands pointed to the time of day, but as they passed through the door into the room they perceived that they were both grown up, and become a man and woman.

You don't punish failure. You reward every little bit of effort a little bit of gold, a little bit of credit. You've done 20 questions tick.

But Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville, the two great social analysts of the nineteenth century, knew better what makes people tick, and what makes societies change.

But it's also about collective engagement and about the unprecedented laboratory for observing what makes people tick and work and play and engage on a grand scale in games.

I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.

Let me remind the Assembly of some of the important items on our checklist and of what each of us must do to make sure that we tick them off on time.

By contrast, the large numbers of young Chinese and Indians who are graduating from the best Western universities (mostly American) know the Western mind from the inside, and thus feel that they understand what makes us tick.

And we discovered that it's a very good thing that, when you go home with something that's been broken, you've actually learned a lot more than when you managed to tick off all of your test objectives the first time through.

You know, back in 2000, we were all so obsessed with paying attention to the aging of our computers, and whether or not they were going to survive the tick of the clock from 1999 to 2000, that we missed a moment that only demographers were paying attention to.

No one doubts the impact that major multinational corporations and terrorist organizations can have, for better or worse. But the role of a number of international non governmental organizations (INGOs) has been more significant than is generally recognized, and what makes the best of them tick is worth exploring.