Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers

I spent my college years writing very little code. Burnt out; too busy; depressed? I don't know; but I was blocked. Previous to college I had written thousands of lines per year, since junior high school.

So call it what you will. But it happens.

Programmers are not artists

True. Mostly.

and have no "creative block".

False (with a possible exception for mindless code monkeys, if such actually exist). It's not hard to get stuck on a wrong approach to a problem, or to know you're doing something wrong but not quite why it's wrong, or to have your mind go blank when you're trying to solve something.

I think he means like gardeners or mathematicians do not have "creative block".