Starting at Zero, from Zero to xyz as all

What is "Zero"?

Zero - Is where space ends called death or infinity?
- Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

Zero is all

Zero is a code to all numbers.
- Khalid Masood

All is Zero

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
- Robert Kiyosaki

All may be Zero

If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.
- Suze Orman

Zero vs Naught

You know the formula m over naught equals infinity, m being any positive number? [m/0 = ∞]. Well, why not reduce the equation to a simpler form by multiplying both sides by naught? In which case you have m equals infinity times naught [m = ∞ × 0]. That is to say, a positive number is the product of zero and infinity. Doesn't that demonstrate the creation of the Universe by an infinite power out of nothing? Doesn't it?
- Aldous (Leonard) Huxley in Point Counter Point (1928), 162.

Zero music

"Zero" song - Hawk Nelson

"Zero" lyrics

Your life dreams are shattered
You're gone away
We've cried here for hours
And the hours turn to days

We know you regret this
Leaving us here
With portraits and memories
That we've held so dear

When I hear your name, it's not the same
No matter what they say, I'm not okay
And we started at zero and went different ways
Now we're all out here wasting away

And if we started at zero
Then how did things change?
It seems like just yesterday
We were the same

It's been three months since you left us
So far nothing's been the same
And my question without answer
Is: am I the one to blame?

And he was such a good description
Of a favored future man
He spoke well of other people
And they said the same for him

When I hear your name, it's not the same
No matter what they say, I'm not okay
And we started at zero and went different ways
Now we're all out here wasting away

And if we started at zero
Then how did things change?
Feels like just yesterday
We were the same, we were the same

They say they're sorry
Well, what are they sorry for?
How can they possible know
What I'm going through?
I feel like no one's ever had to deal with the pain
That I'm dealing with right now

Just six months ago
Everything was fine or so it seemed
What turn of event
Caused him to go downhill?

His parents are devastated
His girlfriend's depressed
What was he thinking?

And we started at zero
And went different ways
Now we're all out here
Wasting away, wasting away
Wasting away, wasting away

And we started at zero
And went different ways
Now we're all out here wasting away

And if we started at zero
Then how did things change?
Seems like just yesterday
We were the same
We were the same
We were the same

The meaning of Zero: A love poem

Author: Amy Uyematsu
Amy Uyematsu is poet and the author of Stone Bow Prayer (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).

A mere eyelid's distance between you and me.

It took us a long time to discover the number zero.

John's brother is afraid to go outside.
He claims he knows
the meaning of zero.

I want to kiss you.

A mathematician once told me you can add infinity
to infinity.

There is a zero vector, which starts and ends
at the same place, its force
and movement impossible
to record with
rays or maps or words.
It intersects yet runs parallel
with all others.

A young man I know
wants me to prove
the zero vector exists.
I tell him I can't,
but nothing in my world
makes sense without it.

(Poets.org reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press [https://www.coppercanyonpress.org])