Vitalik is my hero; you won't find a more dedicated Ethereum fanboy than me. It has some amazing use cases and could propel blockchain technology to a whole new level of mainstream acceptance. It's great that Vitalik makes himself so readily accessible to the community. He's even personally responded on occasion to comments I made on some Reddit posts. So it's kind of disheartening to see people wasting his time with such banal questions. But I guess that's just the nature of us silly, flawed human beings.

By the way, for anyone who doesn't know much about Ethereum and wants a bit of an overview, I wrote an introduction to it recently:

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@cryptomancer/ethereum-for-dummies-introducing-the-next-great-technological-leap-forward