NMS was always suppose to be a game that got support for a long time. People just ignroed half the shit they said in the earlier showcases. He compared it to Minecraft launch
There has been a number of quotes with a variation of that saying from Gaiman and RD Liang. There probably is more.
RD Liang - "Life is a sexually transmitted disease & there’s a 100% mortality rate"
Gaiman - "Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal"