Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black.
History is more or less bunk.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.